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New Holland is a village in Logan County, Illinois, United States. The population was 269 at the 2010 census, down from 318 in 2000. The village start up and growth is highly influenced by the Diffendefer family, which was the first family to settle in the location we call New Holland today. [3] The post office was established in 1802. [4]
The first settlers came to Thornton, Illinois, in 1834. Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard received 160 acres of land from Watseka, his Potawatomi wife. In 1836 Hubbard opened the first quarry on Kinzie Street. The site was abandoned because the stone was too deep and of poor quality. Fred Gardner opened a quarry in 1846, and Stephen Crary opened one ...
New Holland is a global full-line agricultural machinery manufacturer founded in New Holland, Pennsylvania, and now based in Turin, Italy.New Holland's products include tractors, combine harvesters, balers, forage harvesters, self-propelled sprayers, haying tools, seeding equipment, hobby tractors, utility vehicles and implements, and grape harvesters.
Antje Paarlberg née Waagmeester (16 February 1808 – 28 October 1885) is known as the inspiration for the novel So Big.Chicago area author Edna Ferber used South Holland, Illinois, its pioneers and onion farms as background for her 1924 novel about an ambitious widow in a Midwestern Dutch American farming community.
How one of the best restaurants in Peoria, Illinois, became "the most infamous restaurant in the state." 40 years ago, a beloved Peoria restaurant was the source of a historic botulism outbreak ...
St. Lawrence County now is the only county in the New York-New Jersey Milkshed with more than 1,000 dairy farms. It has 1,242.The number of farms in Oneida County has dropped this year from 913 to ...
The history of Illinois may be defined by several broad historical periods, namely, the pre-Columbian period, the era of European exploration and colonization, its development as part of the American frontier, its early statehood period, growth in the 19th and 20th centuries, and contemporary Illinois of today.
Apostolic Vicariate of New Holland and Van Diemen's Land, 1834–1842 Roman Catholic missionary jurisdiction; New Holland (Brazil), 17th-century Dutch West India Company territories on the northeast coast of Brazil; Places in the United States. New Holland, Georgia; New Holland, Illinois; New Holland, Ohio; New Holland, North Carolina; New ...